AK: 2016: The year Bristol Bay landed its 2,000,000,000th salmon

Bristol Bay is home to the largest sockeye salmon fishery in the world. Over 132 years of commercial effort, now more than two billion salmon have been harvested from the Bay’s waters. In fact, the two billionth salmon was landed sometime, by someone, on July 6, 2016.
James Shawcroft holds up what might have been the 2,000,000,000th commercially caught salmon in Bristol Bay’s history. At Coffee Point, July 6, 2016. (Photo by KDLG)It fell to Bob King, the longtime news director at KDL